Since then everyone has been pledging articles for sums below this amount, as a second decree of the same nature is expected.

It is not a bad plan to give relief in this manner to those in want.

As yet, however, there is no absolute destitution, and as long as the provisions last I do not think that there will be.

So long as flour and meat last, everyone with more or less trouble will get his share.

As the amount of both these articles is, however, finite, one of these days we shall hear that they are exhausted.